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- As news broke that two of President Donald Trump’s former top aides were convicted of multiple federal crimes, Fox News focused its coverage on the killing of a 20-year-old college student.
- Critics lambasted the right-leaning network for minimizing coverage of the convictions of former top Trump aides Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen.
As news broke that two of President Donald Trump’s top former aides were convicted of multiple federal crimes, the president’s preferred news outlet, Fox News, reported more prominently on the killing of a 20-year-old college student.
Rather than focusing on what is perhaps the most significant news of the Trump presidency so far, the right-leaning network hosts discussed the news that police believe an undocumented immigrant killed Mollie Tibbetts, the young Iowa woman who was found dead on Tuesday.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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